"My training was never to drink after..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone”
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
“Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.”
More on Discipline
“Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.”
“Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?”
“At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.”
More on Writing
“Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.”
“Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”
“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”